Juno News - June 13, 2022


Poilievre Derangement Syndrome reaches a new high


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5 minutes

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197.86159

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1,135

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59


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well Harrison, I want to talk about Polyev derangement syndrome. We had an entire episode
00:00:04.420 of the show on it a few weeks ago and it continues to thrive and so I covered this in my show earlier
00:00:10.000 this week in an interview with Hamish Marshall where we talked about how the conservative
00:00:14.300 numbers have just blown everyone's figures out of the park. 600,000 members, Pierre Polyev
00:00:19.420 claims 311,958 on his website alone. This is dwarfing any previous leadership race,
00:00:27.440 any previous number of memberships sold by a political party and it's so interesting to see
00:00:33.400 how the media narrative has been proven wrong, Harrison, because remember at first when we saw
00:00:37.660 those big rallies at the Pierre Polyev campaign, the media sort of tried to downplay it. They tried
00:00:43.280 to dismiss it. At first they said that, oh, these big rallies are really just, you know, riding the
00:00:49.580 coattails of the trekker convoy, that these people aren't partisan, they're never going to sign up for
00:00:54.080 members, that Pierre's campaign is really disorganized and they wouldn't be able to have
00:00:58.160 the groundwork. Well, that was all proven wrong based on this claim from Jenny Byrne, Polyev's
00:01:03.320 campaign advisor, that no, no, all of those things are wrong. Of course, my favorite narrative about
00:01:09.160 the Pierre Polyev rallies with the media said that they were too white and that somehow discredited
00:01:14.520 them because of the people, the skin color of the people who go to your rallies apparently can be
00:01:18.920 discrediting. And so it's really interesting, of course, to compare how Polyev and in the
00:01:24.520 conservative leadership race in general, you know, you see the media downplay it, compare it to how
00:01:29.120 they covered Justin Trudeau. A lot of people have been talking about this because back in 2013,
00:01:33.800 Justin Trudeau claimed that his campaign had signed up 150 to 160,000 people and the media were like
00:01:40.260 blown away. They were celebrating. They thought this was like a tremendous feat and that it showed how
00:01:45.080 energetic Trudeau's fan base was and how he was so engaging and how he had this, this big, all this
00:01:51.060 momentum, right? Recall that the liberals don't charge anything for their membership. So all you
00:01:56.820 really had to do is just like get someone to write down their name and email address and they didn't
00:02:00.680 have to put any skin in the game, right? Compare that to Pierre and the conservative party where you
00:02:05.440 have to pay at least 15 bucks. So you're not just some random person off the street. You have to have
00:02:09.840 that level of commitment to say, I'm willing to part with some of my own money to show that I support
00:02:14.600 this candidate. So just so many aspects of what the media had said all along proving to be false,
00:02:20.820 but the media being the media, they just can't let it go. And so they continue along this line,
00:02:26.220 along this reasoning. Almost all of the news stories that I saw about the conservative numbers,
00:02:31.440 they always say conservatives claim or, you know, you see it right in the built into the headline that
00:02:37.320 this is a claim that it's not verified, never trusted politician. Don Iveson had a piece
00:02:41.400 over in the National Post. And he said that no one really knows the real numbers. It's a good rule
00:02:46.580 of thumb in journalism to never believe anything that politicians or political parties say.
00:02:51.000 You have to be professional skepticism. That's all well and good. And that is all true.
00:02:54.460 You do need to preface it. But the emphasis is there, right? Just compare this to even just a
00:02:59.360 story we just talked about, right? Mendicino's out there changing his story, being contradicted left,
00:03:03.400 right and center. And the media still runs with whatever the liberals say. That's the fact.
00:03:07.420 And then whenever a conservative says something, they always say allegedly or conservatives say
00:03:12.240 or candidates claim, having that suffix there just to say, well, just to plant some doubt in the
00:03:19.180 reader's mind. Like, we don't really believe this. This is just what they're saying. And that double
00:03:23.660 standard is there. And then we have another piece, Harrison, from our friend Gary Mason over at the
00:03:28.320 Globe and Mail. He wrote the most arranged piece a couple of weeks ago about Pierre Palliev. Well,
00:03:32.960 he continues down that line. So I'll read a little bit from this column. He says, say what you will
00:03:38.280 about Mr. Palliev's policies, many of which range from disturbing to all out bonkers. His campaign is
00:03:44.680 a well-oiled machine. So he's sort of reluctantly saying that Pierre Palliev is good at his job.
00:03:49.940 Can't help but throwing in that apparently his policies range from disturbing to bonkers. Okay.
00:03:54.800 And he says, basically, Pierre Palliev's good fortune his supporters don't see his own hypocrisy.
00:03:59.600 He says, this is my favorite line from the piece. Mr. Palliev is also a phony when it comes to his
00:04:05.460 policies. His oft-stated intention to make Canada the freest country on earth certainly had an
00:04:10.280 appealing ring to the mostly white protesters who participated in the self-described freedom
00:04:14.400 convoy earlier this year, to whom he pandered shamelessly. So you can't even come up with anything
00:04:19.820 neutral or, I mean, this is just flat out anti-conservative hatred and bigotry masquerading
00:04:27.560 as journalism. What do you make of all this, Harrison? Well, it totally is, Candice. And I
00:04:32.340 mean, this is just what we've come to expect over these past few months. One thing I just don't
00:04:36.520 really understand, though, is that you're seeing the same amount of, you know, you're seeing the
00:04:41.280 same sort of vitriol and the same amount of negative coverage from the legacy media that you
00:04:45.760 would see directed to people like Maxime Bernier. Pierre Palliev's campaign is staffed by pretty
00:04:52.360 establishment figures in conservative politics. People who have been around for many years who
00:04:57.100 have names inside conservative politics and journalists know that. Pierre Palliev is not
00:05:02.020 running some outsider anti-establishment campaign. He's very much running from the inside of the
00:05:08.620 conservative party. And it just so happens to be that right now, Canada is going through a major
00:05:13.080 moment where we have a leader that has essentially, you know, severely damaged the trust of government
00:05:19.820 people and has shown them that their charter rights, frankly, aren't that protected. So of
00:05:24.980 course, a good candidate is going to jump on that and make it part of his campaign. But it's just it's
00:05:29.100 just kind of weird to me that the legacy media have decided to attack Pierre Palliev so much and
00:05:35.980 almost go go as far as to put him in the same category as someone like Maxime Bernier. It's kind of
00:05:41.540 surprising to me knowing who's a part of Pierre's campaign.